SF News Newsom Says Masks Will Only Be Needed In 'Massively Large Settings' After June 15 Newsom said Tuesday that California won't have a broad mask mandate after June 15 in the majority of public settings. But that doesn't mean the Bay Area will roll with that right away — and we likely won't.
Business & Tech Tesla 'Backseat Driver' Nabbed By CHP A man who had been seen multiple times on Bay Area roads happily sitting in the backseat of his Tesla while it drove him places on Autopilot has been arrested by California Highway Patrol. But it sounds like no lessons have been learned.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Oakland Homicide Rate Trending Double the 2020 Rate California health officials are getting set to approve giving Pfizer shots to kids 12-15 starting Thursday, a Richmond school has shut back down due to a van with threatening graffiti, and Oakland just had its 49th homicide of the year.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Mateo County Joins SF in 'Yellow' Tier New California AG Rob Bonta announced the creation of a Racial Justice Bureau, the family of the 25-year-old man killed on Polk Street Saturday say they're shocked at his murder, and San Mateo County just made it to the 'Yellow' tier.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink House of Prime Rib Hit With Wave of Complaints About Possible Foodborne Illness; Beef Source Being Investigated A small wave of complaints about food poisoning from the House of Prime Rib have come in to the Department of Public Health (DPH) — and the restaurant's Yelp page.
Bay Area Sports Oakland A's Once Again Threatening to Leave Oakland as New Stadium Subsidy Comes Up for Vote In a not-very-veiled threat via a statement from Major League Baseball, the Oakland A's are following a familiar playbook to coerce the Oakland City Council to approve an $855 million payment for new infrastructure around the Howard Terminal site.
SF Politics SF Supervisors Vote On Recology Settlement That Comes With $190 Refunds for Trash Customers Recology customers in San Francisco are set to get refunds and lower rates from the company, and the city will get a $7 million payout under the terms of a settlement in a lawsuit from the city attorney.
Business & Tech 44 Attorneys General Are Kindly Asking Facebook Not to Launch Instagram For Kids 44 U.S. attorneys general are asking the company to please, kindly, not launch an Instagram for kids, because of all the significant legal, safety, welfare, and privacy concerns this will raise.
SF News Alameda Callers Did Not Use 911 to Report Mario Gonzalez Being Drunk; Civil Rights Attorney Asks AG Merrick Garland to Investigate What were initially reported as two separate 911 calls about an apparently intoxicated but non-threatening man in an Alameda Park last month were actually calls to the city's non-emergency line.
SF News SFPD Seeks Help Identifying Alleged Carjacker Who Severely Injured a 65-Year-Old Man Last Month Richard Mead was out late at night in San Francisco last month, at work on one of his latest hobbies, collecting scrap metal. He was picking through a dumpster near Union Square when he saw someone get into the driver's seat of his truck.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Newsom to Add $9 Billion For Homeless Housing Famed Bay Area interior architect Art Gensler dies at 85, Newsom wants to cover all back rent for low-income Californians, and Santa Clara County and the 49ers are teaming up to get teens vaccinated.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF High School Seniors May Get to Return In-Person for One Day SF high school seniors may get brought back to a couple of schools for a day just so the district qualifies for some state funds, SFMTA introduces a new temporary bus line, and Mayor Breed proposes new "wellness teams" to join SF's street crisis teams.
Arts & Entertainment 'Monumental' New Sculpture Installation Commemorating America's First Slaves Likely Coming to Golden Gate Park A collection of 350 sculptures that commemorate America's "original sin" of slavery is set to arrive by Juneteenth at the Golden Gate Park's Music Concourse.
SF News Market Street Stabbing Suspect Pleads Not Guilty to Attempted Murder 54-year-old Patrick Thompson, the mentally ill man accused in last week's stabbing of two elderly Asian women on Market Street near Union Square, appeared in court for an arraignment Monday after refusing to do so on Friday.
Arts & Entertainment Downtown SF Peregrine Falcon Brood Remains Healthy, Four Chicks Getting Well Fed All four of the baby peregrine falcons that hatched in the nest atop the PG&E building on Beale Street in downtown SF have survived their first month and will soon begin to fledge — gaining the adult feathers they need for flight.
SF News East Bay Teen Disappears While On Vacation In Mexico A 19-year-old from Hayward went missing a week ago while he was visiting a sister in Mexico, and U.S. authorities are now pressing local police to locate him.
SF News 41-Year-Old Man Killed When Car Jumps Sidewalk In Oakland's Glenview Neighborhood; Driver Flees Scene A 41-year-old Oakland man was killed on Sunday afternoon when a car drove onto the sidewalk where he was standing. The driver fled the scene on foot and police have yet to announce an arrest.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Bystanders Chase Off Car Burglars In Japantown A big jump in COVID cases in Alameda County last week was the result of a state tabulation correction, a Sunday truck fire and subsequent grass fire shut down I-80 in Placer County, and Gov. Newsom is proposing new $600 stimulus checks for middle-income Californians.
SF News BART Ridership Hit a New Pandemic High Thursday as More People Are Moving Around Ridership on BART steadily climbed this week, as the agency's communications team announced Friday on Twitter, hitting a new high Thursday not seen since the beginning of the pandemic.
SF News SFPD Officer Involved In Shooting Near South Park Just before 1 p.m. Friday, there was an officer-involved shooting near South Park in San Francisco, and details so far are scarce.
Arts & Entertainment SF Symphony Kicks Off Season, Begins Selling Tickets For May and June Performances The San Francisco Symphony performed for a live audience on Thursday night for the first time in 14 months — a group of invited guests comprised of medical professionals and representatives of cultural districts and organizations around the region.
SF News San Francisco Lost 15,000 Residents In 2020; California Records First Dip In Population Since Statehood New population data from the state of California for the year 2020 finds that between COVID deaths and migration out of the state, California lost 182,000 residents — the first time in recorded state history that California's population has ever decreased.
Business & Tech Mark Zuckerberg Has Bought Another 600 Acres on Kauai, and Hawaiians Are Pissed Adding to their already significant land holdings on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan recently closed on another deal adding 600 more acres on the island.
SF News First Red Flag Warning of Fire Season Issued for North and East Bay Hills Off-shore winds and generally dry, drought-y conditions mean heightened wildfire danger this weekend, and the National Weather Service (NWS) has issued the first Red Flag Warning of the new fire season.
Bay Area Sports Golden State Warriors Guard Damion Lee Contracted COVID After Being Vaccinated While the timeline he describes doesn't instill total confidence, Golden State Warriors player Damion Lee is on the injured list and recovering from a case of COVID-19, after allegedly being fully vaccinated.While
